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If there truly is no hearing anymore this morning, it’s likely they’ve add-booked him on murder charges and therefore are no longer bound by the timeline of arraigning him on the kidnapping charge. His bond on the murder, if he has one, will be much higher and will keep him in until his...

Depends on the type of sex crime and the jurisdiction it was committed in.

I would personally never tell a defense attorney that ahead of time.

He can’t do that. Spent all his quarters propositioning women.

Assuming the first kidnapping was a strike AND Tennessee allows juvenile strikes to follow the perpetrator into the adult world (California does), then this would be his second strike. A theft would not be a strike; it’s serious and/or violent felonies.

Yes

I’m in court every single day so yes, I do. However, it’s the legislature’s fault for passing the laws they do, setting the bail schedules they do, and restricting us to the confines of the laws they pass.

It would be detectable, yes. But when I charge people with very serious crimes, I don’t bother to add on things like being under the influence or simple possession (for personal use). I know they’re already going to prison for a long time anyway. So I wouldn’t draw the conclusion that he wasn’t...

It’s likely what the bail schedule is for especially aggravated kidnapping in Tennessee. But idk, even here in California I’d argue for, and I would get, no bail based on public safety and flight risk. Hopefully it’s cash only at least.

This is not good.

I think his sentence was done, or if not, it was close enough that he was eligible for the ridiculous covid early releases that many prisons did.

There are. I’ve charged adults with child abuse and/or contributing to the delinquency of a minor, for providing alcohol.

I live locally, though on the El Dorado side of the county line. I live in the El Dorado County national forest and know my way around and even I avoid driving in the dark. It is very dense forest with a ton of steep drop offs. Get alcohol involved and it’s game over. I hope she’s hanging on...

Depends on if they have the felony murder rule in Alabama OR if these two cross state lines and the feds can gain jurisdiction.

You could definitely be culpable under an aider and abettor theory of liability.

This is wild. there is no way they don’t already have a better idea of what happened, given the cameras that should be available where the car was parked. This does seem planned though….

I commend the NYPD for how fast they solved this brutal crime. I pray for her family's peace. The nightmare has only just begun for them.

Genuinely curious why so many people on the thread are under the impression that minors can’t be questioned without a parent present?

I can’t express the number of times a defendant has elected to testify in their own defense and I’ve had to say “you don’t get to ask the questions, I do”. Defendants who choose to testify want to control the narrative and can’t stand when they are subject to cross examination. I had a defendant...

Im in trial myself this week but I’ll do my best to stick around! I practice in California so I don’t know the laws or penal code in Nevada but I’m here for general legal questions. As far as behind the scenes - I don’t know but I can tell you that people expect things to move way faster than...